Splinter Cell: Blacklist Aftermath

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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist Aftermath (written by Peter Telep) is a continuation of the series that takes place after events of the video game Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist. Being a splinter cell book, the team - made up of Sam Fisher (main), Anna Grimsdottir (Intel analyst), Charlie Cole (Intel analyst), and Isaac Briggs (operator/Sam's backup) - travels all over the world. Their first stop is in Russia to look for the owner of one of the most powerful PC security companies in the world. They arrive too late and find that he has disappeared after starting a terrorist plot to undermine the American's economy. They also find the GRU, and an agent nicknamed "Snegurouchka" (Russian for 'Snow Maiden'). The GRU agent captures Kasparov's, the owner's, daughter and thus Fisher and his team (really an agency called 4th echelon) pursue the Snow Maiden to Sochi, Russia. They invade the hotel and end up in a car chase that ends in Fisher getting the daughter but having the Snow Maiden escape. They question the daughter and consult some of their contacts to find the location of Kasparov in a mining town in south america. They go there and chase a guard of Kasparov's and run into the Snow Maiden. They fight, defeat her, and get Kasparov to go with them to their modified C-47 plane dubbed 'Paladin'. They then uncover a plot to blow up some thorium shipments. This would have caused the equivalent of a nuclear bomb if successful. They keep watch over the shipments and have the drivers stop so they can be checked for c-4. Luckily they diffuse the c-4 and save the shipments. This leads to the discovery of a plot to send a suicide bomber with a nuke to one of the largest oil exports in Saudi Arabia. After discovering it is on an inbound train heading right through the oil facility, Sam and Briggs board the train during a sandstorm (called a 'haboob' in Arabic). They again (and for the final time) run into the Snow Maiden, who was unaware of the fact she was on a one way trip. After another battle and the train derailing, he captures her yet again and finds the trigger man for the bomb had been crushed by the bomb itself. The Navy sends a bomb squad and diffuses it, thus ending the terrorist plot once and for all. I think that this was a very good book and i enjoyed it a lot just like all the rest of the books in the series. I think that it should have given a tiny bit of explanation for the gap of time between the video game and this book but other than that it was a very good book. I give it a 5 out of 5.